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Q24a:

Where are fractal pictures archived?

News groups

A24a:

Fractal images (GIFs, etc.) used to be posted to

alt.fractals.pictures ; this newsgroup has been replaced by

alt.binaries.pictures.fractals (known as abpf). However, several

alt.binaries.pictures groups been badly reputed, alt.fractals.pictures seems

to have some new activity.

The fractals posted in abpf are recorded dayly at

http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/fractals/index.html

ttp://galaxy.uci.agh.edu.pl/pictures//alt.binaries.pictures.fractals/last.html

http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/pictures/Usenet/fractals/summary/

http://x-ray.tip.nl/usenet/showgroup.cgi/alt.binaries.pictures.fractals

(this last one, only with MSIE 3)

The following lists are scanty and will evolve soon.

Other archives and university sites (images, tutorials...)

Many Mandelbrot set images are available via

ftp://ftp.ira.uka.de/pub/graphic/fractals

Pictures from 1990 and 1991 are available via anonymous ftp at

ftp://csus.edu/pub/alt.fractals.pictures

Fractal images including some recent alt.binaries.pictures.fractals

images are archived at ftp://spanky.triumf.ca/fractals

This can also be accessed via WWW at http://spanky.triumf.ca/ or

http://fractal.mta.ca/spanky/

From Paris, France one of the largest collections (>= 460MB) is Frank

Roussel's at http://www.cnam.fr/fractals.html

These images are also available via FTP at

ftp://sunsite.cnam.fr/pub/Fractals

Fractal animations in MPG and FLI format are in

ftp://ftp.cnam.fr/pub/Fractals/anim

or http://www.cnam.fr/fractals/anim.html

In Bordeaux (France) there is a mirror of this site,

http://www.bdx1.u-bordeaux.fr/MAPBX/roussel/fractals.html

and a Canadian mirror at http://fractal.mta.ca/cnam/

Another collection of fractal images is archived at

ftp://ftp.maths.tcd.ie/pub/images/Computer

Fractal Microscope

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Edu/Fractal/Fractal_Home.html

"Contours of the Mind"

http://online.anu.edu.au/ITA/ACAT/contours/contours.html

Spanky Fractal Datbase (Noel Giffin)

http://spanky.triumf.ca/www/spanky.html

Yahoo Index of Fractal Art

http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Visual_Arts/Computer_Generated/Fractals/

Geometry Centre at University of Minnesota

http://www.geom.umn.edu/graphics/pix/General_Interest/Fractals/

Computer Graphics Gallery

http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/images/images.html

Many fractal creators have personal web pages showing images, tutorials...

Flame Index A collection of interesting smoke- and flame-like jpeg iterated

function system images

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spot/flame.htm

Some images are also available from:

ftp://hopeless.mess.cs.cmu.edu/spot/film/

Cliff Pickover

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/home.htm

Fractal Gallery (J. C. Sprott) Personal images and a thousand of fractals

collected in abpf

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/fractals.htm

The San Francisco Fractal Factory

http://www.awa.com/sfff/sfff.html

Fractal from Ojai (Art Baker)

http://www.bhs.com/ffo/

Skal's 3D-fractal collection (Pascal Massimino)

http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/massimin/quat/f_gal.ang.html

3d Fractals (Stewart Dickson) via Mathart.com

http://www.wri.com/~mathart/portfolio/SPD_Frac_portfolio.html

Softsource

http://www.softsource.com/softsource/fractal.html

Favourite Fractals (Ryan Grant)

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/People/rgrant/fav_pics.html

Eric Schol

http://snt.student.utwente.nl/~schol/gallery/

Mandelbrot and Julia Sets (David E. Joyce)

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/home.html

Newton's method

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/newton/newton.html

Gratuitous Fractals (evans@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu)

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/VUCC/Misc/Art1/fractals.html

Xmorphia

http://www.ccsf.caltech.edu/ismap/image.html

Fractal Prairie Page (George Krumins)

http://www.prairienet.org/astro/fractal.html

Fractal Gallery (Paul Derbyshire)

http://chat.carleton.ca/~pderbysh/fractgal.html

David Finton's fractal homepage

http://www.d.umn.edu/~dfinton/fractals/

Algorithmic Image Gallery (Giuseppe Zito)

http://www.ba.infn.it/gallery

Octonion Fractals built using hyper-hyper-complex numbers by Onar Em

http://www.stud.his.no/~onar/Octonion.html

B' Plasma Cloud (animated gif)

http://www.az.com/~rsears/fractp1.html

John Bailey's fractal images (<john_bayley@wb.xerox.com>)

http://www.frontiernet.net/~jmb184/interests/fractals/

Fractal Art Parade (Douglas "D" Cootey <D@itsnet.com>)

http://www.itsnet.com/~bug/fractals.html

The Fractory (John/Alex <kulesza@math.gmu.edu>)

http://tqd.advanced.org/3288/

FracPPC gallery (Dennis C. De Mars <demars@netcom.com>)

http://members.aol.com/ddemars/gallery.html

http://galifrey.triode.net.au/ (Frances Griffin <kgriffin@triode.net.au>)

http://galifrey.triode.net.au/

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/5003/ (Richard Hopkins

<r.hopkins@ic.ac.uk>)

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/5003/

J.P. Louvet's Fractal Album

http://www.bdx1.u-bordeaux.fr/MAPBX/louvet/jpl0a.html )

(Jean-Pierre Louvet <louvet@iuta.u-bordeaux.fr> French and

English versions)

Carlson's Fractal Gallery

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/carlson.htm (Paul Carlson

<pjcarlsn@ix.netcom.com>)

Fractals by Paul Carlson

http://fractal.mta.ca/fractals/carlson/ (an other Paul

Carlson's Gallery)

Daves's Graphics Page

http://www.unpronounceable.com/graphics/

Gumbycat's cyberhome

http://www.geocities.com/~gumbycat/index.html

Sylvie Gallet Gallery

http://spanky.triumf.ca/www/fractint/SYLVIE/GALLET.HTML

Howard Herscovitch's Home Page

http://www.echo-on.net/~hnhersco/

Fractalus Home. Fractals by Damien M. Jones

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/2605/

Fractopia Home page. Bill Rossi

http://members.aol.com/billatny/fractopi.htm

The Infinite Fractal Loop

Douglas Cootey (<D@itsnet.com>) run under this name a link between a number

of personal fractal galleries. The home page of the subscribers display the

logo of the Infinite Fractal Loop. By clicking on selected areas of this logo

the server of the loop will call an other site of this loop and from this new

page, you can go to an other gallery... There are currently 34 members in the

loop. There are 11 waiting in the wings to join.

You can have more information and subscribe at

http://www.itsnet.com/~bug/fractals/theloop.html

Q24b:

How do I view fractal pictures from alt.binaries.pictures.fractals?

A24b:

A detailed explanation is given in the "alt. binaries. pictures FAQ"

(see "pictures-FAQ"). This is posted to the pictures newsgroups and is

available by ftp: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news. answers/pictures- faq/

[18.181.0.24].

In brief, there is a series of things you have to do before viewing these

posted images. It will depend a little on the system your working with, but

there is much in common. Some newsreaders have features to automatically

extract and decode images ready to display ("e" in trn) but if you don't you

can use the following manual method:

1. Save/append all posted parts sequentially to one file.

2. Edit this file and delete all text segments except what is between the

BEGIN-CUT and END-CUT portions. This means that BEGIN-CUT and END-CUT lines

will disappear as well. There will be a section to remove for each file

segment as well as the final END-CUT line. What is left in the file after

editing will be bizarre garbage starting with begin 660 imagename.GIF and then

about 6000 lines all starting with the letter "M" followed by a final "end"

line. This is called a uuencoded file.

3. You must uudecode the uuencoded file. There should be an appropriate

utility at your site; "uudecode filename " should work under Unix. Ask a

system person or knowledgeable programming type. It will decode the file and

produce another file called imagename.GIF. This is the image file.

4. You must use another utility to view these GIF images. It must be

capable of displaying color graphic images in GIF format. (If you get a JPG or

JPEG format file, you may have to convert it to a GIF file with yet another

utility.) In the XWindows environment, you may be able to use "xv", "xview",

or "xloadimage" to view GIF files. If you aren't using X, then you'll either

have to find a comparable utility for your system or transfer your file to

some other system. You can use a file transfer utility such as Kermit to

transfer the binary file to an IBM-PC.

If you use a web browser such as Netscape to read

alt.binaries.pictures.fractals, then it will automate the decoding for you.

This is not be true of all web browsers.